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				To Do About To Do A lightweight and fast widget to manage tasks. Thanks to Mac OS X Leopard it integrates with iCal and Mail. The big advantage: to manage your tasks you don’t have to leave these applications open.

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					Learning About Bit Depth Bit depth describes the number of tonal values or shades of a color each channel in a pixel is capable of displaying. Increasing the bit depth of color channels in an image’s pixels exponentially increases the number of colors each pixel can express. The initial bit depth of an image is controlled by your camera. Many cameras offer several file settings; for example, DSLR cameras usually have two settings, allowing the photographer to shoot an 8-bit JPEG file (with 8 bits per color channel) or a 16-bit RAW image file (with 12 to 14 bits per color channel). Image file types use static bit depths. JPEG, RAW, and TIFF all have different bit depths. As you can see in the table below, the file type you shoot your images in dramatically impacts the tones visible in your images. Formats like JPEG use 24 bits per pixel:  8 bits for the red channel, 8 bits for the green channel, and 8 bits for the blue channel. An 8-bit color channel can represent 256 possible values (28), while three 8-bit color channels can represent 16,777,216 values (224). RAW image files also use three color channels. Because most RAW files have the capacity to capture 12 to 14 bits per color channel, their range of colors is exponentially larger.

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				On last week's show you mentioned Ping, the Unix networking utility. That reminded me of what must be the best ever book review on Amazon (8860 people rated the review, and only 3 didn't find it helpful)  Some people have no sense of humour!  ;-) It's a review of a book called "The Story About Ping", and you can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/Story-about-Ping-Marjorie-Flack/dp/0670672238/ref=pd_bbs_1/202-8644488-6608632?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191678286&sr=8-1 In case the link doesn't work, I've copied & pasted the review below. Still loving your work.  Keep it up! Cheers, Alan. (Ye Olde Mac & Mouse feem toon contributer)

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				Mactastic Quick note just to announce a new Mac website called Mactastic.net - aimed at the everyday Mac user of every level of experience. Please go take a look and let me know what you think and pass on the link to the site. Will Web:        www.mactastic.net Email:      digitographer@mac.com

				Maclinks Hi Will, I discovered your podcast a couple of months ago and must say I think it is excellent. I am a Lancashire UK based web designer and mac geek. I am also the site owner of www.maclinks.co.uk (a resource for mac users) - I am going to be adding an advertising/sponsor section to the site and to get me started I am offering free banners/graphics to various mac related sites.

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				Will   I am working with Apple to produce a product which works with imovie details of the product below.   YourView is the simplest, most intuitive and user-friendly software for individuals looking to create, share and enjoy digital video. YourView’s unique and patented icon-based interface allows users to tag and navigate footage in any number of different ways depending on the audience. With YourView, users can take control of their digital assets to create bespoke edits of home videos, watch selected highlights of sports footage, create compilations of recorded TV and film, generate libraries of media for research and education projects, or compile digital video scrapbooks. What’s more, all this is achieved without having to go through the traditionally hard and technical process of using complicated software to physically cut and edit the video, so an almost limitless number of different versions of the same footage are available with a few clicks of the mouse.   What we are trying to do is engage with Mac User Groups to help us produce a product that Mac users will appreciate, I am already talking to Michael Corgan of MUGS UK and Eire   Thanks for any help you can give, if you want to evaluate the product you can download it at www.yourview.tv and I can send you a free license.   Best regards   Brendon Kenny AGAIN INTERVIEW COMING SOON

				Hi Will, Been listening for a few months now. I think part of the charm of the pod cast is imagining how it confuses listeners from the U.S. To that end I would like to nominate my favour British icon "Alec Clifton Taylor". I don't know if you remember him but it must be about 25 years ago when he had several TV series on architecture. He had a habit of standing to one side of the picture and leaning into the frame. He was a gentle academic with strong opinions expressed in a most understated low key manner.   For me his classic quote sees him standing in front of a house with a large picture window and saying:- "if you should inherit a nice little house, and want to ruin it, and ruin it completely, this is what you do."   Can you imaging the owners being asked permission to film out side their house and then seeing that? Anyway keep up the good work, now only another 6 hours before I can go home, rid my self of windows and play with my Mac. P.S. My first Mac was in 1984 (I still have that one)   Mike Cook